The president’s approval of Nvidia chip exports hands the Asian giant powerful hardware the US spent years trying to block. Experts say it’s a game changer.

Having placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its own economic strategy, China is driving efforts to create an international system to govern the technology’s use.

China is a massive artificial intelligence market, and gaining access to it would be a huge win for AMD. Time will tell what the Trump Administration decides to do, but I'd expect resolution on this issue sometime in 2026, and the announcement could cause AMD shares to rise.

Federal prosecutors announced Monday the first-ever conviction in an artificial intelligence technology smuggling case, uncovering a sophisticated scheme to illegally export over $160 million worth of advanced computer chips to China through a network of shell companies and falsified shipping documents.